I don't know much about Discord, but there is some quite active Star Control Discord server with some 100+ members. Is that not what you're looking for? I understand its name is The New Alliance of Free Stars.

There's not an easy answer to that because the Discord celebrates all of Star Control, not just SC2/UQM.
Lots of healthy conversations about 1, 2, 3, Origins, and Ghosts of the Precursors. With a few mentions of the discontinued PlayStation project.

It has dedicated channels for matchmaking on those games that can be played over the net, so UQM, SC3, and SCO.

And I have my own dedicated channel for waxing on and on about the MegaMod.

Well okay I guess a more straightforward question is if the administration is in any way related to Stardock. I want to connect with fans of the original series and don't want to participate in any format hosted by that company at this time.

New Alliance of Free Stars has been a good, surprisingly active hangout. It has a mix of P&F fans and Stardock fans, making it probably the one platform on the entire Internet that's not clearly aligned with one side of the conflict. There are a decent number of Stardock fans around - many are good company, and a few of them take some getting used to. The two Stardock community managers are also guests on the server, only one of which is semi-active. That might be a problem for you.

I've been suspicious about this server since it first appeared and never really definitively ruled out that it wasn't some kind of op by Stardock. The server founder (Nackles) and his back-up moderator (DivineEternalOne) are both fairly benign. They don't have a presence on any other platform or forum that I've seen, but I haven't tried digging into it.

Ok, thanks for the info. I just want to hang out with actual fans of the Star Control universe. Just reading what happened at UQM I don't feel comfortable in any environment where Stardock may be administrating.